VB4 & CMS Migration

I'm currently entertaining the idea of migrating away from vb4 CMS. My biggest challenge appears to be, since I was one of the few that *actually* used the CMS for articles and content somewhat regularly and had it play an important role in my site, I'm kind of at a loss for an upgrade path.

My forum is the dominant arm of my site, but the article portion is very important and going forward I hope to be about 50/50 CMS / Forum ratio. My articles are very photo heavy, having galleries in them, multiple pages (Something that was a great feature in VB4 Suite, if it would have ever worked properly). I want to end up with something that is almost like a web magazine for the CMS. Normal and easy word formatting, formatting/resizing of pictures, insertion of galleries, etc are my main points. I will be willing to sacrifice some on the forum side if I can get this stuff. A lot of the things in vb is bloat no one uses anyways.

In addition to that, my user base ended up making *very* good use of the Groups, something which I have not seen done on very many other sites. I have a total of 24 Groups, which act as a niche within a niche on my site, and they range from 500~ members and 5,000 posts in size on down to just a hand full. So I have that to deal with as well.

There is also users photo galleries, thats got quite a bit of use and I would hate to see just lost. A lot of big trips and things that were documented that way, several hundred photos at a time, etc. Its very sad that the development of vb4 suite didn't go further than it has - it had so much potential, all the ingredients were there.

Based on the little, tiny bit of research I've done so far, I'm considering something like Wordpress for the CMS, with a SSO addon for Xenforo. However, I am very much looking for an open to alternatives that will allow me to salvage and keep as much of this content usable as possible.

Thank you for the reply - I am definitely investigating and checking these out, looks like there are a lot more options to import and do what I wanted than I had really known. Things have matured a lot. I wish a bit more of it was first party features from an upgrade path stand-point, but the mod community seems to be thriving.

If anyone else has any other input in addition, definitely open to it.

Just a short update - I ended up using Jake's "old" vb4 Importer, and it seems to have gotten most of the meat and potatoes converted over but did run into a few snags. I chose it because the official importer did not support many things like existing CMS articles, groups, etc. Not importing CMS articles was a 100% fail, I have to have those.

Actually making use of my CMS Articles it imported at the moment is a bit of a challenge, it appears that when it imports the CMS Articles from VB4 and converts them into threads, it leaves a few fields ambiguous, and then XenZine has a problem processing them into articles. I'm working with the mod creator to try and resolve this, and I've posted a little snippet in the vb4 Importer discussion area also.

Making use of the imported groups data has not been started.

Overall - I am making process, but this sure is not as smooth and seamless transition as I maybe felt like it could be. Substantial investment in time trying to figure out what to do with the data once its imported.